What colleges do not number their courses?

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<p>Most colleges refer to their courses by number, presumably for convenience in referring to them. What colleges do not number their courses?</p>

<p>Examples:</p>

<p>Deep Springs: <a href=“http://www.deepsprings.edu/downloads/Academic%20Catalog,%20Fall%202013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.deepsprings.edu/downloads/Academic%20Catalog,%20Fall%202013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Evergreen State: [2013-14</a> Undergraduate Index A-Z at Evergreen](<a href=“http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2013-14/index]2013-14”>http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2013-14/index)
St. John’s College: [St</a>. John’s College | Academic Program | Annapolis Undergraduate Reading List](<a href=“Concrete CMS Is An Open Source Content Management System For Teams”>Concrete CMS Is An Open Source Content Management System For Teams)
Sarah Lawrence: [Undergraduate</a> Catalogue](<a href=“Disciplines and Programs of Study | Sarah Lawrence College”>Disciplines and Programs of Study | Sarah Lawrence College)</p>

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<p>It’s funny, I just had this conversation with my son when I was asking him what he had registered for in the upcoming quarter and he referred to numbers and I asked him what they meant. </p>

<p>Northwestern now numbers their courses Philosophy 101, 201 (etc) like everyone else, but when I was there, they had a system of A-level, B-level, C-level and D-level. A-levels were typically introductory / survey for non-majors, B-levels were introductory classes intended for majors and maybe one or steps above, C-levels were more advanced (you typically needed X number of C-levels in your major), and D-levels were graduate level. So for example I took Philosophy B10 and Art History B85 and Math C92. Honestly I kind of wish they kept it unique; why be like everyone else?</p>

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<p>Bennington</p>

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<p>I’m shocked that Hampshire does. That’s so un-Hamp!</p>

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<p>^ Probably to facilitate transfers within the five schools.</p>

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<p>I think that’s it - I asked my son (who’s a Div II student there) about it and that’s what he said. So the other of the five know what level, etc. to be taking.</p>

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<p>As a former college transfer advisor at a community college, I appreciate the course numbering, it makes it much more difficult without. It requires syllabi, reading lists and even assignments given, to determine equivalency.</p>

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<p>The Evergreen State College doesn’t number their courses because each term students take only one interdisciplinary topic – but their transcripts describe the topic taken and suggest what courses would be equivalent in a more typical college. I think the one I saw used course numbers for those equivalent courses.</p>

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<p>Thomas Aquinas College (CA). Everyone takes the same sequence of courses in their “Great Books” program. There are no majors. Everyone gets the same liberal arts degree.</p>